Humberside Diversity Panel

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Humberside Diversity Panel

• Marie Neale Stephen Mirfin

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What is the Humberside Diversity Panel?

• A critical friend for all of the Criminal
  Justice Agencies in Humberside
• Police, Crown Prosecution Service, Youth
  Offending Teams, Probation Service, Courts. Hull,
  Everthorpe and Full Sutton Prisons.

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Humberside Diversity Panel

• Formed in January 2003
• Response to Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000
• A Criminal Justice System resource
• Funded by Humberside Criminal Justice Board
• Managed by the National Probation Service
• Funds a part time Administrator and Manager
• The Diversity Panel comprises of fifteen members
  of the community from diverse backgrounds
• Each have experience in a range of key diversity
  issues either through personal, academic or
  professional experience.

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Role of the Panel Member

• Ability to recruit and capacity build people from
  communities
• Have unique access to targeted
• communities
• Play a pivotal role in developing the
  relationship between the Criminal Justice System
  services and the community acting as advocates,
  researchers, project developers, friendly face

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What do they do?

• Criminal Justice Agencies commission the Panel
  members to carry out 100 hours worth of
  consultation and guidance in diversity related
  work
• Participation in 6 Consultation Meetings per year
• Diversity advisors within recruitment and
  selection
• Mentors to offenders from similar diverse
  backgrounds
• Diversity advisors to CJS staff working with
  minority offenders
• Full training and development programme

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What have they achieved?

• HM Prison Hull- mystery shopper exercise
• Everthorpe Prison policies review
• NPS recruitment observations
• Victim and witness care letters Crown
  Prosecution Service
• True Vision victim contacts
• Race Equality Scheme reviews
• Humberside Police training exercises
• Domestic violence survivors study
• Community ambassadors Crown Prosecution Service
• Disability Access audit Youth Offending Teams

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Benefits of the Diversity Panel

• You are hearing from real people with real issues
  about the community and their views on Criminal
  Justice
• Bring new and diverse learning ideas to the
  Criminal Justice System and community
• Critical but constructive friend to both
• 15 different ways to start a debate on any
  diversity subject
• There are experts within certain areas
• Can form stronger and long lasting partnerships
  with the community
• Opportunity to disseminate information or good
  practice
• Pushing the message in the right direction
• Helping the communities to help themselves by
  using panels as conduits based on results

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• More information is available on the Humberside
  Criminal Justice Board website
• www.lcjb.cjsonline.org/humberside